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Carefx Teams with CA, IBM, and Initiate Systems to Deliver eHealth
Initiative to North Louisiana
(Wireless News Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
The Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange, in conjunction with
the Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition, Inc. (LRHC) and Louisiana State
University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), announced
the selection of an integrated platform provided by the collaboration
of four leaders in open systems and interoperability standards to
realize their vision of a federated, patient-centric regional eHealth
initiative.
Carefx, CA, IBM and Initiate Systems will deploy and maintain a secure
and reliable infrastructure for the timely and accurate electronic
sharing of clinical information between community providers in North
Louisiana and the LSUHSC-S.
The integrated platform employs a federated approach to providing
clinicians with secure, anywhere, anytime access to a portal-based view
of patient-centric data housed in disparate applications across
multiple hospitals. IBM Websphere and Fusion from Carefx will provide
the portal framework for the aggregate view of real-time patient data.
User authentication and single sign-on, policy-based authorization,
identity federation, and auditing of access is being provided by CA's
Identity & Access Management suite of products. The architecture and
data flow among the four technology partners ensures accurate patient
identification based on an enterprise master person index (EMPI)
provided by Initiate Systems. Implementation will begin immediately
with a projected live date of March 2008 for physician access.
Seven of the 24 LRHC hospitals will participate year one: Richland
Parish Hospital in Delhi, Homer Memorial Hospital in Homer, Union
General Hospital in Farmerville, LaSalle General Hospital in Jena,
Hardtner Medical Center in Olla, DeSoto Regional Health System in
Mansfield, and Bunkie General Hospital in Bunkie.
"This partnership builds on the strengths of all four companies to
share secure clinical data to provide safe, timely, efficient, and
equitable patient care," said Oscar Diaz, executive vice president of
Carefx Corp.. "Our experience bolstered through our deep relationships
with CA, IBM and Initiate Systems brings tremendous value to rural
Louisiana by laying the groundwork for a successful interoperability
platform promoting instant data sharing and collaboration across
healthcare organizations. We're honored to help meet the need for IT
resources in rural hospitals for residents who deserve the improved
care benefits that technology offers."
"IBM is committed to helping hospitals and governments around the world
continue to improve their public health initiatives," said Tony
Bosselait, business executive and CTO for IBM Healthcare Software. "We
are proud to work with our business partners on this project and
provide a solution that improves the wellness of the citizens of
Louisiana."
"Because alternative sources of care in the rural community are scarce,
each care provider plays a critical role in supporting the local
healthcare system," said Jamie Welch, chief information officer, LRHC.
"The advanced technologies we've selected for this program are designed
to improve access to real-time patient data, expand local access to
needed specialty services, and increased collaboration on a patient's
condition by referring doctors or nurse practitioners."
This initiative was made possible by funds appropriated in the 2007
Louisiana Legislative session, spearheaded by Senate President Don
Hines and Representative Francis Thompson. "This extremely important
initiative empowers our state's valuable caregivers with the means to
interact and share critical data more efficiently and effectively,
resulting in better service to our state's rural and underserved
communities," said Sen. Hines.
The Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition provides its 41 member hospitals
with regulatory, legal, financial and legislative advocacy for both
member hospitals and provider-based rural health clinics.
Carefx is a provider of an open and scalable Patient Information
Aggregation platform that provides clinicians real-time access to
information residing in disparate applications.
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